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Dr. Peabody in Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit]

Sue Peabody participated in the plenary opening session of the Society for French Historical Studies in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the screening of the French documentary,Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit], based upon her award-winning book, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford UP, 2017). Together with the director, Pierre Lane, they discussed the making of the film, just released with English subtitles, in which she appears as a “talking head.”

In addition, Oxford University Press has released Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies in paperback for the first time.

Victor Moore Presents at University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association Annual Conference

MA student Victor Moore presented “A Historiographical Examination of the Causes of Trinidad and Tobago’s Black Power Revolution of 1970″ at the 16th Annual Conference of the University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association, with the theme this year of “Conflict, Protest, Insurrection, Coup.” 
This presentation was via Zoom on Friday, March 18th .

Dr. Weller Gives Virtual Lecture

Charles Weller gave an invited virtual lecture to The Political Psychology Committee of the Iranian Political Science Association on “History as Identity: Implications for Personal, Social and Political Psychology”, and had the privilege of being able to dialogue with scholars residing in Iran on how national and world histories can potentially serve efforts of conflict resolution and peace-building within our one shared world.